I could use some help... Thinking about a wood stove

Lots of good suggestions here, but I dont think everyone read the budget... $3,000 including stove, liner, pipe, and installation. The PE's and Woodstocks start around that price just for the stove.

Hmmm....here's a completely different idea, and it really depends on how much space you can lose.

What about completely closing off/bricking up the fireplace, extending the brick up a bit higher and putting a pad in front. Then put a stove on the pad, run some double wall up to a 90 and into the chimney/liner? Someone around here did that last year...and I *think* it's Oldhippie that has a set up with his Fireview that I'm invisioning. Then you can go with a top vent stove, including an Englander that will have a lower price tag (but is still quality) and afford to buy the pipe, liner, etc. Not sure if it would work or not, jsut a thought. I'll hunt around for a pic if you'd like.

Just throwing this out there but you can finance the woodstock stoves. Sounds like you will need to up your budget unless you can build out your hearth yourselves, even with an insert you would need to extend that hearth from the looks of it. And I have not seen where it was determined this was a masonry fireplace not a prefab.

I have a Hearthstone Manchester in my newly built, very tight, cabin style, open floor plan home. It is the warmest, best running stove I have ever had (jotul black bear, Mansfield, etc). Out house is 1800 sq ft, 1400 if cooler bedroom door closed. This thing will heat our house from 68 (FHW setting), to 78-80 in a bit over an hour. It's mainly convective heat, but also some radiant due to the interior soapstone. Outside is cast iron. I'm actually considering selling this and getting a new Jotul Greenville F45 because we are just too warm....I know...l know.....but I like keeping smaller hotter fires going rather than starting a fire once every 12-14 hours because it's just too hot in the house. The Manchester is what I would get in your shoes. Take heed to the advice someone gave about east- west loading with a front door only model....nothing compares to north south loading, no roll outs or logs falling against your only door. The Manchester has both, can order side door on either side, and it takes a full 24" log.

Here's what I'm talking about, it was oldhippie. Love this!

Oldbarn70 said:

I have a Hearthstone Manchester in my newly built, very tight, cabin style, open floor plan home. It is the warmest, best running stove I have ever had (jotul black bear, Mansfield, etc). Out house is 1800 sq ft, 1400 if cooler bedroom door closed. This thing will heat our house from 68 (FHW setting), to 78-80 in a bit over an hour. It's mainly convective heat, but also some radiant due to the interior soapstone. Outside is cast iron. I'm actually considering selling this and getting a new Jotul Greenville F45 because we are just too warm....I know...l know.....but I like keeping smaller hotter fires going rather than starting a fire once every 12-14 hours because it's just too hot in the house. The Manchester is what I would get in your shoes. Take heed to the advice someone gave about east- west loading with a front door only model....nothing compares to north south loading, no roll outs or logs falling against your only door. The Manchester has both, can order side door on either side, and it takes a full 24" log.

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That's a huge outhouse!

teutonicking said:

That's a huge outhouse!

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Might even be a two story

eclecticcottage said:

Hmmm....here's a completely different idea, and it really depends on how much space you can lose.

What about completely closing off/bricking up the fireplace, extending the brick up a bit higher and putting a pad in front. Then put a stove on the pad, run some double wall up to a 90 and into the chimney/liner? Someone around here did that last year...and I *think* it's Oldhippie that has a set up with his Fireview that I'm invisioning. Then you can go with a top vent stove, including an Englander that will have a lower price tag (but is still quality) and afford to buy the pipe, liner, etc. Not sure if it would work or not, jsut a thought. I'll hunt around for a pic if you'd like.

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I did something very similar with my Prgress Hybrid, but mine goes stragiht back into the chimney so you really can't even see the stovepipe.

Jessica1459 said:

I like that!

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That's what I had in mind for your install Jessica. In fact I'm contemplating swapping out my Princess for the PH for the same type of install, you have an option of a shorter leg kit so you can tuck it into your fireplace a bit to help on the hearth clearance issue. You just don't want it so far in you can't open the side loading door.